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Set of mythological Greek characters
Clytius (
Ancient Greek : Κλυτίος), also spelled Klythios , Klytios , Clytios , and Klytius , is the name of multiple people in
Greek mythology :
Clytius, one of the
Giants , sons of
Gaia , killed by
Hecate during the Gigantomachy, the battle of the Giants versus the
Olympian gods .
[1]
[2]
Clytius, an alternative name for
Clytoneus , the son of
Naubolus of
Argos and father of
Nauplius II.
[3]
Clytius, son of
Agriopas and grandson of
Cyclops . He fought in the war between
Eumolpus and
Eleusis and fell alongside Eumolpus' son
Immaradus and
Egremus , son of
Eurynomus .
[4]
Clytius, the
Athenian father of
Pheno who married King
Lamedon of Sicyon.
Ianiscus , descendant of this Clytius, became king in
Sicyon after
Adrastus .
[5]
Clytius, a man killed by
Perseus in the battle against
Phineus .
[6]
Clytius, a warrior in the army of
Dionysus during the god's Indian campaign. He was killed by
Corymbasus .
[7]
Clytius, an
Argonaut and an
Oechalian prince as son of King
Eurytus
[8] and
Antiope
[9] or
Antioche ,
[10] and thus brother to
Iole ,
Toxeus ,
Deioneus ,
Molion ,
Didaeon and
Iphitos .
[11] According to
Hyginus , he was killed by
Aeetes , if the text is not corrupt;
[12] according to
Diodorus Siculus , however, he was killed by
Heracles during the latter's war against Eurytus.
[8]
Clytius, in a rare version of the myth, a son of
Phineus and brother of
Polymedes : the two brothers killed Phineus' second,
Phrygian , wife (
Idaea ?) at the instigation of
Cleopatra .
[13]
Clytius, a Trojan prince as the son of King
Laomedon and brother of the later ruler
Priam . He was also one of the Elders of
Troy during the siege of the city.
[14] By
Laothoe ,
[15] he was the father of
Caletor ,
[16]
Procleia
[17] and
Pronoe or
Pronome , of whom the latter was the mother of
Polydamas by
Panthous .
[18]
Clytius, son of
Alcmaeon and
Arsinoe or
Alphesiboea . He moved from
Psophis to
Elis in order to escape his mother's vengeful brothers. The Clytidae, a clan of soothsayers, claimed descent from him.
[19] According to
Stephanus of Byzantium , his mother was
Triphyle , the
eponym of
Triphylia .
[20]
Clytius, each of the three namesakes among the
Suitors of
Penelope : one from
Dulichium ,
[21] another from
Same ,
[22] and the third from
Zacynthus .
[23] These men asked the hand in marriage of Penelope but suffered the same fate at the hands of the hero
Odysseus . The latter shot all of them dead with the aid of
Eumaeus ,
Philoetius , and
Telemachus .
[24]
Clytius, an attendant of
Telemachus in
Homer 's
Odyssey , the father of Telemachus' friend
Peiraeus .
[25]
Dolops , a Greek warrior killed by
Hector in the Iliad , could also have been his son.
[26]
Clytius, one of the sons of
Aeolus who followed
Aeneas to
Italy and was killed by
Turnus .
[27]
Clytius, father of
Euneus (one of those killed in the battle between Aeneas and Turnus).
[28]
Clytius, a young soldier in the army of
Turnus who was loved by
Cydon in
Virgil 's
Aeneid , and was killed by
Aeneas .
[29]
Clytius, father of
Acmon and
Menestheus from
Lyrnessus ,
Phrygia .
[30]
To these can be added several figures not mentioned in extant literary sources and only known from various vase paintings:
[31]
[32]
Clytius, a companion of
Peleus present at the wrestling match between Peleus and
Atalanta .
Clytius, an arms-bearer of
Tydeus present at the scene of murder of
Ismene , on a vase from
Corinth .
Clytius, a
barbarian -looking participant of a boar hunt, possibly the
Calydonian hunt , on the Petersburg vase #1790.
Clytius, a man standing in front of the enthroned
Hygieia , on a vase by the
Meidias Painter .
Clytius, an epithet of
Apollo , in an inscription.
Notes
^
Apollodorus , 1.6.2
^ Imrė Trenčeni-Valdapfelis (1972). „Mitologija“.
^
Scholia on
Virgil ,
Aeneid 2.82
^ Scholia on
Homer ,
Iliad 18.483
^
Pausanias , 2.6.5–6
^
Ovid ,
Metamorphoses 5.140
^
Nonnus , 28.66 & 92
^
a
b
Diodorus Siculus , 4.37.5
^
Apollonius of Rhodes , 1.86
^
Scholaist on
Sophocles ,
Trachiniae
266 as cited in
Hesiod , The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, The Taking of Oechalia fr. 4
^ Apollonius Rhodius, 1.86 (with
scholia ) & 1044; 2.117 & 1043
^
Hyginus , Fabulae 14
^
Anthologia Palatina 3.4
^ Homer, Iliad 3.148 & 20.238
^
Tzetzes , Homerica 437
^ Homer, Iliad 15.419
^ Pausanias, 10.14.2
^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 12.211
^ Pausanias, 6.17.6
^
Stephanus of Byzantium , s.v. Triphylia
^ Apollodorus,
Epitome 7.27
^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.28
^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.29
^ Apollodorus, Epitome 7.33
^ Homer,
Odyssey 16.327 & 15.540
^ Homer, Iliad 11.302
^ Virgil, Aeneid 9.744
^ Virgil, Aeneid 11.666
^ Virgil, Aeneid 10.325
^ Virgil, Aeneid 10. 129 with
Servius ' commentary
^ Roscher, s. 1248
^ Realencyclopädie , s. 896 with further references therein
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